Collected Fantasies by Avram Davidson

Author:Avram Davidson [Davidson, Avram]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0425050815
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 1982-05-31T21:00:00+00:00

An enormous hand suddenly covered his own and pressed it down. The tune subsided into a jumble of chords, and an echo, and a silence.

“Mon, mon, you not do me right. I no di say, ‘Mehk I hear a sahng ahv you country’?” Samuel, on his knees, breathed heavily. His breath was heavy with rum and his voice was heavy with reproof…and with a something else for which Limekiller had no immediate name. But, friendly it was not.

Puzzled more than apologetic, Jack said, “Well, it is a North American song, anyway. It was an old Erie Canal song. It—Oh. I’ll be damned. Only it’s supposed to go, ‘Buffalo gal, won’t you come out tonight,’ and I dunno what made me change it, what difference does it make?”

“What different? What different it mehk? Ah, Christ me King! You lee’ buckra b’y, you not know w’ehnnah-teeng?”

It was all too much for Limekiller. The last thing he wanted was anything resembling an argument, here in the deep, dark bush, with an all-but-stranger. Samuel having lifted his heavy hand from the instrument, Limekiller, moved by a sudden spirit, began,

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,

To save a wretch like me.

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